Girl

Ostensibly based on a novel by Blake Nelson, this is clearly indebted to the acclaimed US TV series My So-Called Life, in which straight-A student Claire Danes confided her romantic and hormonal confusions as she swapped her school books for boyfriends. This time it’s Dominique Swain (Adrian Lyne’s admirable Lolita) who falls head over heels for Portland, Oregon, grunge rocker Todd Sparrow (Sean Patrick Flanery), with plenty of smartsy asides to the audience but nothing new to say.